[governance] Reinstate the Vote

[KovenRonald at aol.com]

In a message dated 22/11/07 2:12:41, suresh at hserus.net writes:


> the vast majority of the world has democratically elected governments
> 

The statement above is inaccurate. A small minority of countries in Africa, 
the Arab world and the former Soviet Union can be said by normal criteria to 
have democratically elected governments. There are some 90 clearly 
non-democratic governments represented in the UN.

The implication of that for I'net governance is the obvious one that 
transferring responsibility for cyberspace to a UN body would mean that it would be 
controlled in the interests of non-democratic states.

Best regards, Rony Koven


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